"Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all."

Nostalgia, Change, Time, Past, Friendship

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"Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all."

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"I was adored once too."

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"And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to take a house that had a gothic dovecot, or some other such piece of antiquity as would have a pleasant effect on the mind, filling it with a nostalgic longing for impossible journeys through the realms of time."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fumes.Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.I used to be a poet and my words were gold."

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"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."

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"The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing."

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"I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Still in my mind the old days scenario is playing OVER AND OVER."

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"In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory."

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Explore more quotes by L. M. Montgomery

"I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I - as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again - it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul."

Loss

"We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy."

Presence

"Mrs Lynde says, "Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."

Expectations

"Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own."

Authenticity

"But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"

Communication

"Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you."

Simplicity

"It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy."

Belonging

"She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led."

Reflection

"It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked."

Wisdom

"Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!"

Change